ANGA CABLE – Cologne. During a press conference this Tuesday at the Anga Cable in Cologne, German cable operator Unity Media will announce the integration of its three networks, ish, iesy and TeleColumbus West. The new name of the integrated networks will be unitymedia. The networks cover about 5 million homes in the states of Nordrhine Westfalia and Hesse.
Last week the German association of housing corporations (Verband der Wohnungswirtschaft) announced it has entered into an agreement with Unity Media in which the operator will give a better understanding of its costs structure when raising prices of its services. The association represents 460 corporations and 1.3 million households.
The agreement will also cover the distribution of ethnic bouquets in order to combat “the jungle of satellite dishes”, as the corporations call the growing number of dishes in their estates.